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The history of FOSS backs to around 20 years ago. During last two
decades, FOSS Free software with its unique distributed software
development model has gained the interests of many IT users and
professional ranging from the ordinary users to developers and
policy makers. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to
run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
This type of software freedom has provide the government with
many advantages such as vendor independence, security,
reliability, reduce reliance of import, and developing local
software capacity. Moreover, Free software definition implies
special software development, licensing, and business models.
This workshop clear the
origins of the FOSS movement and its reasons of spreading around
the world. The pros and cons of FOSS and experience of other
countries in applying it to their IT systems will be explained.
Some well-known FOSS licensing models will be reviewed. The
current status of FOSS in Iran will finalize the workshop.
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Mohammad
Khansari
is the director of Persian
GNU/Linux Localization National project
at Advanced
Information and Communication Technology research Center (AICTC)
of Sharif University from Jan. 2003 (start of the project). At
the same time, he is a PhD candidate and lecturer at Computer
Eng. Department at Sharif University of Technology. He has more
than 10 years working experience with GNU/Linux. He has two years
administration experience with Beowulf architecture, a clustered
GNU/Linux system for research in parallel processing. He was also
Solaris and Informix database administrator and X Window
programmer for more than three years. He and Prof. Dr. Rabiee are
the starters of the GNU/Linux localization and National Free/Open
source project in Iran at the government level from Jan 2001. He
had a short-time research fellowship from DAAD, Germany and some
papers in International conference. He has given many lectures
on Free/Open source software
and GNU/Linux localization topics in Iran and International
conferences such as United
Nation Expert meeting at Geneva (2004)
and FOSS
in Syria
(2005). He is the co-author of the “Introduction
to Free/Open Source Software” in Persian
with Prof.
Dr. Rabiee.
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